Daily Mail Cryptic #16549

2021-04-07

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Across

1a

Check out underground laboratory container (4,4)

5a

Sort of angle that's hard to grasp (6)

9a

Sun might put off firearm manufacturer (8)

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10a

Cleric spread out seats in theatre (6)

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12a

The sort of list that causes a commotion (2,2)

13a

A personal novel about large power generator (5,5)

15a

Spooner’s cocky porters erect these to reduce accidents (5,8)

19a

Where to fill tank and repair rotten oil taps (6,7)

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23a

25 eating hot food endlessly in church event (10)

25a

Where skaters perform without one on a single occasion (4)

28a

Independent firm backfires in do-it-yourself folly (6)

29a

Team give up assistant (8)

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30a

Pigmeat or game with back scrubbed (6)

31a

He notices fashionable post in school (8)

Down

1d

This GT needs replacement hose (6)

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2d

Reader's given up hosting Yankee church assembly (5)

3d

Note about writer's sentence (4)

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4d

Put money on US writer's promise to marry (7)

6d

Balloon bulging at first, then sagging (5)

7d

Lack of interest in a Parisian firm (9)

8d

Such a lens, with parts exchanged, would be useless (8)

11d

All the best old volunteers appear twice (2,2)

14d

Ring around head revealed in encephalogram (4)

15d

Religious Q & A schematic needs to be reformed (9)

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16d

Regularly blast player at Old Trafford (3)

17d

Check rule golfers primarily ignored (4)

18d

More costly business with China's imminent (8)

20d

Look for Europeans in South Korean capital (4)

21d

Writer's supporting main document store (7)

22d

Start to persuade British traveller from the south to feel happier (4,2)

24d

Minister cut the page where the book begins (5)

26d

Sound of horseplay from people next door? Not half! (5)

27d

A drop of liquid runs out of loaf (4)